HUMAN AND vehicular movements came to a standstill on Sunday evening at about 7:00pm when an articulated truck ran over a 22-year-old woman killing her instantly on the Bolgatanga-Zuarungu stretch of the Bolgatanga-Bawku highway.

The Upper East Regional Commander in charge of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Daniel Kwao Tey who confirmed the incident said the deceased, Azure Adongo was been ridden on a motorbike by a young man on the way from Bolgatanga towards Zuarungu when the accident occurred.

He explained that after Timber Market, the rider who picked the woman overtook an articulated truck without observing if there was oncoming vehicle. In the process, he collided with another motorbike from the opposite direction.

The Police Commander said the woman slipped under the articulated and the truck overran on her upper body. Her liver, heart, womb and intestines all gushed out and she died instantly. He rider sustained a fracture but the other rider and his pillion rider escaped with only bruises.

The body Azure has been deposited at the Regional Hospital Mortuary while the injured rider is on admission at the same hospital.

The articulated truck with registration number GR 4871 X was impounded by the MTTU for the driver to assist in investigations. Our investigations showed that the deceased woman was a relative of the owner of the articulated truck.

According to ASP Kwao, 14 persons died during the first quarter of this year as a result of road crashes. Though he said last year’s statistics showed that 15 persons died during the first quarter as compared with 14 this year, there was the need for all stakeholders to approach road crashes with all seriousness.

From: William N-lanjerborr Jalulah | A1Radioonline.com | Ghana

The chief of the Gambibgo traditional area, Naba Anun-egra Akolmolga Adakpea, has made a passionate appeal to government and authorities concerned to construct a bridge over a river that cuts off the community and other nearby communities from the Bolgatanga township.

He made this appeal during a durbar on Thursday; to officially unveil an ultramodern building for his administrative works.

According to him, during the rainy seasons, many people including the aged fall in the river and sustain various forms of injury which sometimes lead to the loss of lives and other valuable properties.

He further said that because relatives are not well in tuned of what to do when a relative is drown they proceed with the burial ceremony without getting the appropriate authorities or bodies informed which he believes goes a long way to shield their problem from the authorities.

Naba Anun-egra also called on the people of Gambibgo to desist from indiscriminate sale of land in other not to render their future generations homeless, and urged parents to take serious, the education of their children.

The assemblyman for the area, Ayinbila Abubakar Atera, charged members of the community both in and outside, to make the development of the community a priority.

By: Adugbire Cletus Adoliyine | A1Radioonline.com | Ghana

Contrary to claims by some affected persons of the ongoing decongestion exercise in the Bolgatanga Municipality that taskforce members do not attach human face to their assignment thereby manhandling them, the Municipal Chief Executive, Edward Ayagle Ayiriba, says the public rather does not give the taskforce the needed corporation.

The exercise which started three weeks ago has witnessed many kiosks, billboards and signposts demolished. Earlier, Mr. Ayagle, explained that the exercise was mainly targeted at raising revenue for the assembly.

However, several questions have been raised about the mode and approach of the exercise. Speaking in an exclusive interview with A1 News, Mr. Ayagle, admitted that he had received similar complains about the approach but insisted the taskforce members were on course and called for the corporation of the general public.

He hinted that the exercise has been useful adding that, the assembly would present a comprehensive report on the decongestion exercise, which would cover the revenue accrued from the exercise and how it would be spent.

According to Mr. Ayagle, the exercise was supposed to have lasted for 21 days but the taskforce are demanding for an extension, on the basis that, they’ve not covered some vital areas so it could possibly be extended by a week.

The three regions of northern Ghana have 75 per cent chance of getting normal rain this year without floods, but with the likelihood of dry spells. The dry spells most likely would occur in May and August and last for about one to two weeks.

Charles Yorke, Research Director of the Ghana Meteorological Services (GMET) announced this at a meeting of farmers, assembly members, community representatives and other stakeholders in agriculture, held at Gambaga in the Northern Region on Wednesday.

The two-day participatory scenario planning (PSP) meeting organized by Adaptation Learning Program (ALP), Ghana, under CARE International, was aimed at developing advisories based on the anticipated weather scenario for more resilient livelihoods and risk management in the communities.

Mr. Yorke said the rains this year would generally be accompanied by strong winds and would start in April and end in October. He noted that the rainfall pattern would be like that of 2005.

He explained that the rains would not start on the same day in all the regions, but a total rainfall of 20mm in one week with one of the rains reading up to 10mm was an indication that the rainy season had started. Likewise when the rains stop for 10 days in October, then that would be a sign of the end of the season.

He then advised farmers not to hold or use cutlasses when it is raining or seek shelter under trees as the electric charge around trees during such times could easily attract lightning.

Earlier on, the farmers, discussing the local forecast based on age-long beliefs, said the rains would be moderate but could not agree on whether there would be strong winds or not.

Such beliefs include the fruiting of the shea nut and “Sibisibi” or local berry trees, whereby heavy fruiting is widely believed to indicate heavy rains.

Also, when birds that nest near river banks suddenly start building their nest high up in the trees, it indicates the onset of heavy rains.